Project Frankenbike

[SlimKlim]

save up for a couple weeks and you'll have a new motor. i wish car stuff was that cheap.

sorry to hear but 'tis but a flesh wound. it's fixable and you'll get a chance to learn more about the bike, although i know you'd rather be riding.

I think this is the most sound advice I've heard so far. I think now that I'm calmer and a little more realistic about things. I've got a pretty good plan of attack. Part of me wants to sell the thing step off the ship, losses be damned, just not deal with it anymore and get a little fraction of my money back out.

The majority of me wants to sell my soul and fix it as soon as possible.

I think what I'm actually going to do is take a few deep breaths, take it to my favorite little shop here and have them check it out and see if they think its terminal. If they do, as I suspect they will, I'll take it home, drain the fuel, take the motor out, wrap it up and store it. I'll sell the bad motors and other spare parts I have. I think I'll sell the pistol I never play with anymore to help offset the cost some, and then eventually replace the motor when I find a good deal on one and bring the bike back to life.

I'd like to do it right away, but this summer has been paycheck to paycheck, and right now the car needs tires real bad. The 3 majority of the 3 paychecks I have coming for the rest of the summer need to be saved, so I'm going to have to try and grow as much cash out of extra parts and shit i don't use anymore. Might take a while and it might not even get done in the 5 weeks before school, but eventually she'll live again.

EDIT: However, its worth stating, for people like us (maybe just me) that invest so much (all of) their free time into projects like its, its a full on emotional blow to go from musing about what kind of clock/thermometer you want to stick on your dash to having your motor all of a sudden struggling for survival.